I have heard that there will be reductions in Boeing IT. Just wondering if anybody else heard the same.
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Looks like some layoffs to some job codes in IT are in work.
Boeing is a big, multinational aerospace company with a variety of products.
It often sees a need to reduce its workforce on a product line or even within
a discipline within a product line to match an anticipated slow-down in work or
drop in income. In my 37 years, I saw this happen on both a small and large
scale.
I was a SPEEA engineer in IT writing software for engineers to build airplanes.
Around 2013, we started hearing stories of plans to scale back
whole IT projects and move some of them to Charleston. At the same time,
and maintenance and custodial IT work started moving to an outside vendor
(Dell). Likewise, some projects started the move to outside firms though not
always with success. Just a few years ago Boeing set up shop in
India. This time, learning from the lessons from the previous years, it made
the business part of Boeing - reciprocity for other business with India. There
is a lot of pressure to give more work to India. Oddly, this does not reduce
the workforce since you have to add layers of contract and project coordinators.
I know less than 10 people working projects in Boeing IT. None have
extensive engineering domain experience, so building tools for the engineering
workforce is very difficult now. I switched to systems engineering in BCA but
spent five years writing software due to a shortage of the depth and breadth of
the needed skills. Boeing had stopped developing the skills and career path
for this kind of work. Engineers with software skills are difficult to acquire.
Boeing is competing with SpaceX, Blue Origin, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and
other companies who pay top dollar for such capabilities.
Layoffs continued to happen over the last two decades I worked there. What I
discovered is that many in management think that IT is just about the people
who set up your computer and reset your password. Many do not understand or do
not value what a software developer does. Boeing doesn't call "computer
science" an engineering discipline, it IS engineering. With this perspective
I believe you will continue to see layoffs from IT until it is mostly gone.
YAWN....isn't it time for you to post new BS and not the same lie you've been dangling for the past 2 years ??? All I.T. functions at boeing are now outsourced to outside companies with rock solid fixed priced 7 year contracts. Boeing has no one left to layoff except the managers assigned to interface with these companies and we all know boeing will not layoff their managers.
YOU plan on recirculating this same BS declaration every 6 months like you have for the past year and a half ??? There is no IT left at boeing. It's all been outsourced !!! Read my lips, NO MORE IT TO LAYOFF !!!
Manager gave us advanced warning that Applied Insight is to replace as many IT functions as possible.